Aide-prier
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
fr., Aid-prayer. A proceeding by which one sued for land in which he had a limited interest sought suspense of the action and aid of his lord or reversioner. So a tenant in capite, or a city or borough holding a fee-farm from the King, might pray in aid of the King.